DDOS

Kaspersky Lab has been accused of having close ties to the Russian government before, but a new batch of emails indicates the firm worked with the FSB intelligence service in some unusually close ways.

The US government is warning companies about DDoS and malware infiltration attempts it believes are being launched by North Korea, possibly as part of an attempt to strike back at the US after news of our own missile sabotage programs surfaced several months ago. Tensions with the North Koreans have generally been high the past nine months.

Cloudflare has been accidentally leaking user information to any number of potential bad actors, and some of the information was apparently indexed on Google’s search engine. Change your passwords now.

A new report from security firm Incapsula indicates malware authors have found a way to exploit tens of thousands of routers loaded with the same flawed firmware — and there’s some indication that Anonymous is pulling at least a few of the strings.